Let me just point out that $500 billion is larger than the entire yearly non-defense discretionary budget of the US, itself the largest discretionary budget of

Let me just point out that $500 billion is larger than the entire yearly non-defense discretionary budget of the US, itself the largest discretionary budget of any government. >But criley2, how do we spend trillions if $500B is larger than our budget Discretionary budget, not mandatory spending like social security or welfare. $500B is an enormous sum of money, it truly is. $500B/10Y would still be an incredibly large sum subject to an incredible amount of corruption and graft...